I will be honest, I did not want to go out tonight. It was (and still is) cold, wet, windy and utterly miserable outdoors and, to top it all, my legs were still protesting a bit after Monday night's exertions.
I was, however, still a little short of the distance target I set myself for this month, and as awful as the weather is this evening, it's forecast to be worse tomorrow and Friday, so I decided to just be brave, and head out.
40 minutes and just shy of 6k later, I returned home, soaked to the skin, looking thoroughly bedraggled, but with a sense of achievement that comes of ticking off another goal as completed. Weather permitting, I may manage one more run between now and the end of the month, but having got my 120k for January under my belt, I won't be too disappointed if the weather encourages me to take an extra rest day or two before I start my assault on February...
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I'm with you on the weather its rubbish and though its weather for staying in you still went. You're really building up the distance runs and it's quite inspiring .😊
Congratulations on running in such bad weather, 120k is excellent, what is not excellent is the long term weather forecast up to the end of February, the weather they say will be much the same as we have been having in January with only brief dry spells. 😂
Not really. I aim for around 100k each month. My previous best was 108k so I wanted to beat that, and at the end of last week, I realised if I stretched just a bit more than my weekly average, I could get to 120 this month, so just decided to go for it. Technically I still have a run to spare, but having gone HM distance on Monday, I think I've earned the right to skip that one.
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